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Two armed men have entered a restaurant in Barcelona and are reported to be holding hostages, following an attack in which a van was driven into a crowd, causing a number of injuries. Two people are reported to have been killed. Police say they are "terrorist attacks".

His wife, Anne-Marie Collomp, told news agency AFP her husband wasn’t supposed to work in December.

“But since we have no children, he went [there] to replace two Frenchmen; fathers who were due to go home for the Christmas and New Year holidays,” she said.

“When the kidnappers went inside [the residence], they asked: ‘where are the Frenchmen?’ They only found my husband,” she added.

Speaking from the couple’s home on the French overseas department of Réunion, Mrs Collomp said her husband “loved Africa and his work,” and often went to work in Nigeria for four to six months at a time.

Her biggest worry is her husband’s health.

“My husband underwent a triple bypass 12 years ago. He needs to take his medication every day; this is what worries me the most,” she said.

“I am very anxious. I don’t listen to the radio any more, nor watch the television. I don’t know what state he is in,” she added.

“The Quai d’Orsay [French foreign ministry] tell us they’re working on it, that we shouldn’t worry, but we live far away and we still have no news,” she said.